INHALTI. HISTORICAL, COMPARATIVE & TYPOLOGICAL Heine: Grammaticalization Theory and Its Relevance for African LinguisticsFrajzyngier: Bidirectionality of GrammaticalizationLipou: Mixed Languages and Bantu Historical LinguisticsToporova: Typology and the Bantu Noun ClassesClaudi: Some Thoughts on the Origin of Gender MarkingGüldemann: Prosodic Subordination as a Strategy for Complex Sentence ConstructionII. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY Traill: Linguistic Phonetic Features for ClicksOdden: Domains and Levels of Representation in ToneHérault: Syllabic Genesis and Luganda PhonologyIII. SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS Mchombo: Contributions of African Languages to Generative GrammarRugemalira: The Upper Limit Constraint on Argument StructuresMurphy: Agreement as Non-Directional - An Approach to Bantu ConcordBentley: Variation in Bantu Verbal AgreementBroekman: African Languages and Syntactic GenerationVisser: The Thematic Structure of Event Nominals in Xhosavan der Spuy: Syntactic Traces in ZuluSchaefer: Talmy"s Schematic Core and Verb Serialization in Emai - An Initial Sketchdu Plessis: The Semantics of Ergative Constructions in Zulu and XhosaKulemeka: The Grammatical Category of Chichewa Ideophones IV. INTERACTIONAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS Akinyi Obondo: On Ways of Retelling - The Narrative Syntax of Urban Luo ChildrenHerbert: The Meaning of Language Choices in South AfricaChick: "One Settler, One Bullet" and other ProvocationsPodobínska: La Politesse - Les Comportements Linguistiques Adoptés par des Locuteurs de Swahili au Cours des Actes de « Mande »V. LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING Elugbe: Literacy and Language Development in NigeriaBodomo: Linguistics, Education and Politics - An Interplay on Ghanaian LanguagesJorge Lopes: Language Policy in Mozambique - A Taboo?Blommaert: Ideology and Language in Tanzania - A Brief Survey und viele mehr ...